Facts about William Shakespeare

Summary

Biography

He is regarded as the greatest English writer and the world's most eminent dramatist. He called England's national poet and "the bard of Avon" - or simply "poet." Ben Jonson gave him the name "Swan of Avon". Authorship consists of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and several other poems. Plays have been translated into every major language and are performed more frequently than other playwrights plays.

Shakespeare was born and grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. When he was 18 years old, he married Anne Hathaway, whom he had three children with: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. He traveled to London sometime between 1585 and 1592 and began a successful career as an actor, writer and part owner of the acting company Lord Chamberlain's Men - later known as the King's Men. He probably retired back to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.

Shakespeare wrote most of his famous works between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and krønikespill, genres he refined in the late 1500's. He wrote mainly tragedies until 1608 - such as the classic Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. At the end of his life he wrote tragicomedy and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623 published two of his former theatrical colleagues Shakespeare's complete plays, which contained all his plays except two.

Zodiac etc.

He is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 173 quotes who is written / told by William, under the main topics: Happiness, Love, Nature, Peace.

"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"